UPDATE: New comprehensive trip history data have been posted. Data from Hubway's launch in 2011 through the end of the 2013 regular season are now available.

In 2012, Hubway and MAPC challenged the public to visualize half a million Hubway rides. The Challenge is now closed, but you can still see the winners below. We will continue to serve the dataset and updates from this website.

The challenge is over, but it's never too late to have fun with data. If you come up with something cool, please send it to us at submit[at]hubwaydatachallenge.org!

The Judges

Gabriel Florit, Boston Globe

Gabriel Florit makes data visualizations for the Boston Globe. Previously, he wrote software to keep track of trains, fell 200 feet off a mountain, and got lost in Alaska for two years.

Darcey Moore, Institute of Contemporary Art

Darcey Moore, Registrar at the ICA and Contemporary Exhibitions, specializes in organizing aesthetic data, creating and re-creating feats of contemporary installation, and riding her bike to bakeries and ice cream shops.

Irene Ros, Bocoup

Irene Ros is an open source javascript developer with a focus on creating engaging, informative and interactive data-driven interfaces and visualizations. Her love for data and its visual forms started at The Visual Communication Lab @ IBM Research and now continues at Bocoup.

Holly St. Clair, Metropolitan Area Planning Council

Holly St. Clair is the Director of Data Services at MAPC, where she works to organize, visualize, utilize and democratize data. She is a mother of two and founder of the “Fresh in the Village”, an art and locavore food project.

Scott Mullen, Hubway

Scott Mullen is General Manager of Hubway. He previously ran Zipcar’s national university program, and was a member of the LivableStreets Alliance board of directors.

Sarah Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sarah Williams, an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and the Director of the Civic Data Design Project at MIT, employs data visualization and mapping techniques to expose and communicate urban patterns and policy issues to broader audiences. Her work is also part of the permanent collection in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York.

Stationstatus data, with information about available bikes and empty docks per station and minute back to August 2011 (30 million records), is now available: download 190MB CSV (tar.gz)

What were we looking for?

Visualizations, animations, maps, info graphics that tell us something new or illustrate the awesomeness of more than half a million bike trips in one year. Winning entries were both smart and beautiful, and included interactive data analysis tools, animations, artistic representations, and even a video game.

Who entered?

Data geeks of all stripes! Students, professors, designers, artists, data nerds by profession and those who just do it for fun.